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|Definition=impf. ηὕρισκον or εὕρισκον [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''68, etc.: <span class="bld">A</span> fut. εὑρήσω ''h.Merc.'' 302, Th.7.67, etc.: aor. 2 εὗρον Il.1.498, etc., later [[ηὗρον]] or εὗρον E. ''Med.''553, etc.; 3pl. εὕροσαν [[LXX]] ''De.''31.17, ''BGU''1201.16 (i A.D.); imper. [[εὑρέ]] Hdn.Gr.2.23; Ep. inf. εὑρέμεναι Od.12.393: later aor. 1 εὕρησα Man.5.137; [[εὗρα]] [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in ''Ev.Luc.''8.35, ''Act.Ap.''5.10, ([[ἐν]]-) ''PGen.''3.19 (ii A.D.): pf. εὕρηκα [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''546, etc., pf. imper. 2sg. εὕρηκε Nausicr.1 D.:—Med., fut. εὑρήσομαι [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]9.6, Lys.13.9, etc.: aor. 2 εὑρόμην Hom., Att. [[ηὑρ]]- or [[εὑρ]]- [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''269, Th.1.58, etc.: aor.1 εὑράμην Hes.''Fr.''116.3 (testes omnes), Str.12.34.4, Iamb.''VP''35.255, ''AP''9.29 (Antiphil.), Epigr. ap. Paus.6.20.14, ''Ep.Hebr.''9.12, ''IG''3.900 (ii A.D.):—Pass., fut. εὑρεθήσομαι [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''108, E.''IA''1105, Isoc.9.41: aor. 1 [[ηὑρέθην]] or εὑρέθην [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''1135, etc.: pf. [[ηὕρημαι]] or [[εὕρημαι]] [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''743 (troch), etc.—Hom. has only aor. Act.and Med., exc. <b class="b3">ἔθ' εὑρίσκω</b> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[ἐφευρίσκω]]) Od.19.158. (Earlier Att. Inscrr. have [[ηὑρέθην]], [[ηὕρημαι]], as ''IG''22.1636.32, al., ''Epigr.Gr.''35 (iv B.C.): εὑρέθην ''SIG''679.80 (Magn. Mae., ii B.C.): the augm. is seldom found in Papyri, ηὕρισκεν ''PPetr.'' 3p.101 (iii B. C.); never in those of Men. or Phld.):—[[find]], εὗρεν δ' εὐρύοπα Κρονίδην ἄτερ ἥμενον ἄλλων Il.1.498, etc.; <b class="b3">εὕρημα εὑ</b>., v. [[εὕρημα]].<br><span class="bld">2</span> c. part., [[find that]]... εὕρισκε Λακεδαιμονίους… προέχοντας [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.56, cf. 1.5:—and in Pass., ἤν εὑρεθῇς μὴ δίκαιος ὤν S.''Tr.''411, cf. ''OT''839, ''OC''946: with part. omitted, <b class="b3">ὅταν τοὺς θεοὺς εὕρω κακούς</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[ὄντας]]) Id.''Ph.''452; <b class="b3">εὑρήσει τοσαῦτα ἔτη</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[ὄντα]]) Th.5.26; <b class="b3">θῆλυς εὕρημαι</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[ὤν]]) S.''Tr.''1075; ἄνους ηὑρέθη Id.''Aj.''763.<br><span class="bld">3</span> c. inf., <b class="b3">εὕρισκε πρῆγμά οἱ εἶναι</b>… [[found]] that the thing for him was... [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.79:—Med., [[εὑρίσκεται]] (sed leg. <b class="b3">εὕρισκέ τε</b>) <b class="b3"> ταῦτα καιριώτατα εἶναι</b> ib.125:—Act., also, [[find means]], [[be able]], οὐχ εὑρίσκει χρήσασθαι Arr.''Epict.''2.12.2.<br><span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b3">εὑ. ὅπως</b>… to [[find]] by what means... Th.7.67:—Med., c.inf., [[find out]] or [[discover how to]]... ηὕρετο… παύειν E.''Med.''196 (anap.).<br><span class="bld">5</span> Pass., [[εὑρέθη ὅτι]]… [[it was found that]]... [[LXX]] ''1 Es.''2.22(26).<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[befall]], of evils, τινα ib.''Ge.''44.34, ''De.''31.17.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[find out]], [[discover]], οὐδέ τι μῆχος εὑρέμεναι δυνάμεσθα Od. 12.393; οὐδέ τι τέκμωρ εὑρέμεναι δύνασαι 4.374, cf. Il.7.31; εὑ. ὁδόν Pi.''P.''10.29; ἐξ ἀμηχάνων πόρον [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''59; μηχανὴν σωτηρίας Id.''Th.'' 209; πημάτων ἄρηξιν S.''El.''875; τινα ἐμοῦ βελτίονα Ar.''Pl.''104, etc.: abs., εὕρηκα Archim. ap. Plu.2.1094c:—Med., εὕρετο τέκμωρ Il.16.472; <b class="b3">ὄνομ' εὕρεο</b> [[think of]] a name to give him, Od.19.403; εἴ τιν' ἑταίροισιν θανάτου λύσιν… εὑροίμην 9.422.<br><span class="bld">2</span> c. inf., [[get a chance of]], [[be able]], ἵνα εὕρωμεν ἐπιστολὴν γράψαι ''BGU''822.28 (ii/iii A.D.), cf. 17,20, ''PGrenf.''1.64.3 (vi A.D.), etc.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[devise]], [[invent]], ὀχήματα [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]'' 468, etc.; πρόφασιν Antipho 5.65:—Med., <b class="b3">τὰ δ' ἔργα τοὺς λόγους εὑρίσκεται</b> [[deeds make themselves words]], S.''El.''625.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[get]], [[gain]], [[ἀρετάν]], [[δόξαν]], Pi.''O.''7.89, ''P.''2.64; τὰ χρήματ' ἀνθρώποισιν εὑρίσκει φίλους S.''Fr.''88; ἐξ ὀλβίων ἄζηλον εὑροῦσαι βίον Id.''Tr.''284, cf. E.''Med.'' 1107 (anap.); δεινὰ δ' εὑροῦσαν πρὸς [[αὐθαίμων]] πάθη S.''OC''1078 (lyr.); ἀφ' ὧν ὄνασιν εὕρωσι Id.''El.''1061; <b class="b3">μέγ' εὑρεῖν κέρδος</b> ib.1305; εὑ. σωτηρίαν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Protagoras|Prt.]]'' 321c; <b class="b3">εὑ. μητρὶ φόνον</b> [[bring about]] murder, E.''El.''650: abs., [[acquire wealth]], [[LXX]] ''Le.''25.47:—Med., [[find]] or [[get for oneself]], [[bring on oneself]], οἷ… αὐτῷ πρώτῳ κακὸν εὕρετο Od.21.304 (so in Act., μή πού τις ἐπίσπαστον κακὸν εὕρῃ 24.462); αὐτὸς ηὑρόμην πόνους [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''269; μοῖραν ηὕρετ' ἀσφαλῆ Id.''Ag.''1588, cf. ''Th.''880 (lyr.): so in pf. Pass., μέγα πένθος ηὕρηται [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''615 (lyr.); <b class="b3">εὑρήσεται τιμωρίην</b> will [[get]] for himself, [[obtain]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.148, cf.9.26; ἀλεωρήν Id.9.6; κλέος Pi.''P.''3.111; ἄδειαν εὑρόμενος And.1.15; ἀτέλειαν D.20.1; εὑρίσκεσθαι ὠφελίαν ἀπό τινος Th.1.31; τι παρά τινος ''IG''12.108.47, Lys.13.9; <b class="b3">εὑ. παρά τινος</b> c. inf., [[procure]] from him that... [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]9.28; δεηθέντες οὐκ ἐδύναντο εὑρέσθαι Lys.14.20.<br><span class="bld">V</span> especially of [[merchandise]], etc., [[fetch]], [[earn]] money, <b class="b3">εὑροῦσα πολλὸν χρυσίον</b> having [[fetch]]ed a [[large]] [[sum]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] 1.196; ηὗρε πλέον ἢ ἐνενήκοντα τάλαντα X.''HG''3.4.24, cf. ''Vect.''4.40; <b class="b3">οἰκία εὑρίσκουσα δισχιλίας</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[δραχμάς]]) Is.8.35; <b class="b3">ἐγδίδομεν… τοὺς θριγκοὺς… ὅτι ἂν εὕρωσιν</b> for what they [[will fetch]], IG7.3073.7 (Lebad.); <b class="b3">ἐρωτᾶν τί εὑρίσκει</b> what it [[will fetch]], [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Characters|Char.]]''15.4.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of the sum or bid which [[secures]] an article or contract, <b class="b3">οἰκέτην… ἀποδίδοται τοῦ εὑρόντος</b> sells [[for what he will fetch]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''2.5.5; τοῦ ἤδη εὑρίσκοντος ἀπεδίδοτο Aeschin.1.96, cf. ''SIG''966.37 (Attica, iv B.C.), 581.99 (Rhodes-Hierapytna, ii B.C.); <b class="b3">ἐκτιθέτωσαν τὸ εὑρίσκον ἐφ' ἡμέρας δέκα</b> the [[highest]] or [[winning]] [[bid]], ''PRev.Laws''48.16 (iii B.C.), cf. ''UPZ''112vi9 (iii B.C.); <b class="b3">προσέβαλον αὐτῷ τοῦ εὑρίσκοντος ἀνὰ</b> (x) [[ἱερεῖα]] (x) I have placed at his disposal ([[x]]) pigs at the [[current price]] of ([[x]]), ''PCair.Zen.''161.5 (iii B.C.), cf. ''UPZ''114(1).24 (ii B.C.).

|txtha=[[imperfect]] εὕρισκον (R G T); R G T); Tr WH)) and [[more]] [[rarely]] ηὕρισκον (cf. Kühner, § 343, i. 825f ([[especially]] Veitch, [[under]] the [[word]] at the [[end]]) and references [[under]] [[εὐδοκέω]]); [[future]] [[εὑρήσω]]; [[perfect]] [[εὕρηκα]]; 1st aorist ἑύρησα ([[which]] aorist, [[unknown]] to the earlier Greeks, occurs in [[Aesop]] fab. 131 (f. 41edition Furia, p. 333edition Cor.); Manetho, 5,137 and in Byzantine writings; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 721; Winer's Grammar, 86 (82); (cf. Buttmann, 36 (31))), 2nd aorist [[εὗρον]], 1st [[person]] plural in Alex. [[form]] L WH s Appendix, p. 164; Buttmann, 39 (34); Winer's Grammar, § 13,1 ([[see]] [[ἀπέρχομαι]])) εὕραμεν, T Tr WH, 3rd [[person]] plural εὗραν, Tr WH; Tr (in the Sept. [[often]] εὕροσαν); [[passive]], [[present]] ἑυρίσκομαι; [[imperfect]] 3rd [[person]] [[singular]] εὑρίσκετο, R G, ηὑρίσκετο L T Tr WH (cf. Bleek and Delitzsch at the [[passage]] (Veitch, as [[above]])); 1st aorist [[εὑρέθην]]; [[future]] εὑρεθήσομαι; 2nd aorist [[middle]] ἑυρομην and [[later]] [[εὑράμην]] (Sept. [[numberless]] times for מָצָא, [[sometimes]] for הִשִּׂיג to [[attain]] to, and for Chaldean שְׁכַח; (from Homer down); to [[find]]; i. e.<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[properly]], to [[come]] [[upon]], [[hit]] [[upon]], to [[meet]] [[with]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[after]] [[searching]], to [[find]] a [[thing]] sought: [[absolutely]], opposed to ζητεῖν, [[ζητεῖ]] [[καί]] εὑρήσεις, [[Epictetus]] diss. 4,1, 51); τινα, [[οὐχ]] εὑρίσκετο, he had [[vanished]], [[πέραν]] [[with]] the genitive ἐν [[with]] the dative εὑρέθη εἰς, εἰς, C. 2); [[with]] the accusative of the [[thing]],, etc.; followed by [[indirect]] [[discourse]], [[οὐχ]] εὑρέθησαν, had [[disappeared]], ἐν [[with]] the dative of [[place]], τινα or τί ζητεῖν [[καί]] [[οὐχ]] εὑρίσκειν: Ald.; Complutensian; γῆ [[καί]] τά ἐν αὐτῇ ἔργα εὑρεθήσεται shall be [[found]] [[namely]], for [[destruction]], i. e. [[will]] be [[unable]] to [[hide]] [[themselves]] from the [[doom]] decreed [[them]] by God, Tr WH, [[after]] the [[strange]] [[but]] [[improbable]] [[reading]] of manuscripts א B and [[other]] authorities; ([[see]] WH. Introductory § 365 and Appendix at the [[passage]]).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> [[without]] [[previous]] [[search]], to [[find]] (by [[chance]]), to [[fall]] in [[with]]: τινα, ἐν [[with]] the dative of [[place]], τί, ἐν, [[with]] the dative of [[place]], [[εὑρίσκω]] τινα or τί [[with]] a [[predicate]] accusative is used of those [[who]] [[come]] or [[return]] to a [[place]], the [[predicate]] participle or adjective describing the [[state]] or [[condition]] in [[which]] the [[person]] or [[thing]] met [[with]] is [[found]], or the [[action]] [[which]] [[one]] is [[found]] [[engaged]] in: [[with]] an adjective, Buttmann, 301 (258)), [[καθώς]], [[ὄντα]] [[must]] be supplied, Winer's Grammar, § 45,6b.; Buttmann, 304 (261)).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> tropically, "to [[find]] by [[inquiry]], [[thought]], [[examination]], [[scrutiny]], [[observation]], [[hearing]]; to [[find]] [[out]] by [[practice]] and [[experience]]," i. e. to [[see]], [[learn]], [[discover]], [[understand]]: κατηγορίαν, T Tr [[text]] WH κατηγορεῖν); τινα followed by participle in the [[predicate]], [[ὅτι]], [[πειράζειν]]), τινα (τί) [[with]] a [[predicate]] adjective (participle), αἰτίαν θανάτου, αἰτίαν, [[κακόν]], [[ἀδίκημα]] ἐν τίνι, τό τί ποιήσωσι, τό [[πῶς]] κολάσωνται αὐτούς, ἑυρίσκομαι to be [[found]], i. e. to be [[seen]], be [[present]]: נִמְצָא to be discovered, recognized, detected, to [[show]] [[oneself]] [[out]], of [[one]]'s [[character]] or [[state]] as [[found]] [[out]] by others (men, God, or [[both]]) (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 65,8): εὑρέθη ἐν γαστρί ἔχουσα, [[ἵνα]] εὑρεθῶσι [[καθώς]] [[καί]] [[ἡμεῖς]], εὑρέθη μοι ἡ [[ἐντολή]] εἰς θάνατον [[namely]], [[οὖσα]], the commandment, as I [[found]] by [[experience]], brought [[death]] to me, τίνι, the dative of the [[person]] [[taking]] cognizance and judging (Winer's Grammar, § 31,10; Buttmann, 187 (162)), Buttmann, the [[passage]] cited and § 133,14; Winer's Grammar, § 31,4a.); [[ἵνα]] εὑρεθῶ ἐν [[αὐτῷ]] i. e. ἐν Χριστῷ, [[namely]], ὤν, σχήματι εὑρεθείς ὡς [[ἄνθρωπος]], Josephus, b. j. 3,6, 1; so the Latin incenior, [[Cicero]], de amic. 19,70; reperior, Tuscul. i. 39,94). εὑρίσκειν Θεόν (opposed to ζητεῖν αὐτόν, [[see]] [[ζητέω]], 1c. (cf. [[ἐκζητέω]], a.)), to [[get]] [[knowledge]] of, [[come]] to [[know]], God, εὑρίσκεται (ὁ Θεός) τίνι, discloses the [[knowledge]] of [[himself]] to [[one]], [[Philo]], [[monarch]]. i. § 5; Origen contra Celsus 7,42). On the [[other]] [[hand]], in the O. T. εὑρίσκεται ὁ Θεός is used of God [[heaving]] [[prayer]], granting [[aid]] implored ([[εὑρέθην]] (L and Tr in brackets WH marginal [[reading]] [[add]] ἐν) τοῖς [[ἐμέ]] μή ζητοῦσι, I granted the [[knowledge]] and [[deliverance]] of the gospel.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> Middle, as in Greek writings, to [[find]] for [[oneself]], to [[acquire]], [[get]], [[obtain]], [[procure]]: λύτρωσιν, Buttmann, 193 (167); Winer's Grammar, 18; 33 (32) n.): [[τήν]] ψυχήν, ἀνάπαυσιν, (ταῖς ψυχαῖς [[ὑμῶν]], μετανοίας τόπον, [[place]] for recalling the [[decision]], changing the [[mind]] (of his [[father]]), Winer's Grammar, 147 (139)); [[σκήνωμα]] τῷ Θεῷ, [[opportunity]] of [[building]] a [[house]] for God, [[χάριν]] εὕρωμεν, [[grace]], favor, [[χάριν]] [[παρά]] τῷ Θεῷ, [[ἐνώπιον]], τοῦ Θεοῦ, [[ἔλεος]] [[παρά]] κυρίου, בֲּעֵינֵי חֵן מָצָא, [[ἀνευρίσκω]].)